By FOWZIA SIDDIQUI ON February 3, 2010, a New York court convicted Aafia. The charge against her was an ATTEMPT to kill Americans. For that she was sentenced to 86 years in prison and is being kept in total isolation. The trial was framed by Judge Richard Berman in a way that there would be no mention of her [...]
By JAMES PETRAS IN the midst of the Arab uprisings throughout the Middle East, at a time when even the European (EU) has publically condemned Israel’s blockade of Gaza and its illegal land seizures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou promised a visiting delegation of American Jewish leaders, that [...]
By HAROON SIDDIQUI -- Toronto Star CANADA pays dearly whenever Stephen Harper lets his ideology, partisanship, controlling nature or stubbornness trump common sense, or the advice of his ministers and civil servants. While prime ministers have the final word, in Harper’s case it’s only his word that counts — regardless of the cost, at home [...]
By RAMZY BAROUD PALESTINIAN Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is part of a strategy intended to offset any public dissatisfaction with the self-designated Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. The PA hopes the ‘news’ [...]
By ALAN HART NEVER before has an American President’ s fear of offending the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress been so exposed as it was by Obama’s decision to veto the Security Council resolution condemning continued, illegal Israeli settlement activities on the occupied West Bank and demanding that Israel’s immediately and completely cease [...]
By JAWED ANWAR AURANGZEB Alamgir (b. 1618 – d. 1707), an emperor from the dynasty of secular Mughals, tried to establish a system based on Quran and Sunnah. He only partially succeeded. He failed due to several reasons. One of the reasons is that what he had got from his ancestors was a ruined Muslim [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA AS per Paul Craig Robert, hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed. While it enjoys torturing other peoples for American sins, it objects to human rights abuses of countries it despises such as Burma, Pakistan, Iran, Syria. In USA if a person tortures a dog he [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA 25th FEBRUARY brings back the memories of gory incident of mutiny in Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) two years ago. On that day at 11 am over 1000 NCOs and Sepoys of BDR staged a mutiny at its HQs in Dhaka in Pilkhana compound where about 9000 troops were present. It happened on [...]
By RAMZY BAROUD NOW that the Egyptian people have finally wrestled their freedom from the hands of a very stubborn regime, accolades to the revolution are pouring in from all directions. Even those who initially sided with Hosni Mubarak’s regime, or favored a neutral position, have now changed their tune. “Arabs celebrate from the Gulf [...]
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI FEBRUARY 11, 2011 would go into Arab, nay Islamic, nay world history as a red-letter day. It was the day when the numb-headed Egyptian president, dreaming of lifetime presidency, entered live into history. That, however, is not the news. The 2-point news is that not a single dog barked when [...]
